Chapter 40: Chickens Fly and Dogs Jump
Gongzi left without righteousness, but left Tian Chou alone in the chaotic Danshui, which made him feel a little sad in his heart.
Thinking that Liu He would return to Youzhou Jixian with only more than 20 people on this trip, Tian Chou's heart was full of worry and reluctance.
Even if he is still not used to seeing a series of "obscene" and "obscene" actions such as picking his feet, picking his nose, rolling his eyes, swearing, etc., Tian Chou has seen many unique strengths from Liu He, and these advantages can make people live longer in troubled times.
Anyone can be indifferent to fame and fortune, and they can also have no quarrel with the world, but they will definitely not think that they will live a long life. Tian Chou is the same, so he is very optimistic about the eldest son Liu He, and he is also very worried about the safety of the son on the way back to the north.
In order to respond to and cover the son's actions, Tian Chou secretly joined forces with the Qu family and Fengxiangcheng to plan several actions soon after Liu He left.
First of all, Tian Chou selected some older and more virtuous old people from Qu Jia, Dengjiazhuang and Chenjia Village to form several "condolence groups", and went to other villages near Sanhu Pavilion with food, herbs, wine and meat and other materials to express condolences and condolences to those villagers whose families were killed or injured outside Danshui City, and at the same time deeply condemned Yuan Yin's perverse crimes.
When the condolence group came out, it was under the banner of Zhaojingqu Sanhu, not only quickly bought the hearts of the three families, but also pulled up a lot of hatred for Yuan Yin, who was hiding in Danshui City, and by the way, he also offended all the other big clans who controlled the ground near the Sanhu Pavilion.
These big families naturally felt that the three families of Zhaojingqu had already crossed the boundary, so they sent their soldiers to drive them away, but they were fiercely counterattacked by the farmers and tenant farmers who were already very resentful in their hearts, and not only suffered heavy casualties, but also generated serious antagonism.
Immediately afterwards, Tian Chou quietly sent Deng Hai, Chen Gui, and other "backbone businessmen" who were good at "mobilizing the masses" out of Lu and asked them to go to the townships under the jurisdiction of Danshui to carry out more in-depth agitation and propaganda, and at the same time recruited some villagers with a firm attitude to join the organization of the joint action, and taught these people the experience and methods of how to rebel against the "big eaters" and ensure that they would be strict and orderly when they started up again.
With the bloody clashes outside Danshui City as a foreshadowing, the tenant farmers and tenants were now very bitter in their hatred and antagonism with the government and large households, and now with the "adding fuel to the fire" and "sending charcoal in the snow" in the fields, a larger-scale revolt quickly gathered strength.
While doing these two things, Tian Chou also sent people to Fengxiang City to contact that side, and encouraged Xiong Yue, the leader of Fengxiang City, to personally lead troops to attack Danshui County.
Not long ago, Zhu Biao and Shao Tong returned from Sanhu Pavilion with a full load, not only obtained a large amount of food and money, but also supplemented a lot of weapons and armor, which made Fengxiang City's combat power significantly improved, and also made this group of "mountain goods" hidden in the deep mountains and old forests taste a lot of sweetness.
In order to give Xiong Yue courage, Tian Chou revealed the news that a large-scale civil uprising was about to break out in Danshui County, which made Xiong Da's ambitions, which was originally a small fortune and peace, begin to swell, and finally decided to cooperate with the angel again, taking advantage of the civil uprising to attack Danshui County.
On the fifth day of Liu He's departure, a large-scale and well-planned popular uprising finally broke out.
First, Zhaojiabao and Jingjiabao sent people to Danshui County to urgently ask for help, claiming that they were under a fierce siege by the rebels, but Yuan Yin ignored the news and continued to retreat in Danshui City.
Then someone went to Danshui with the token and distress letter of Liu He, the envoy of the Son of Heaven, claiming that the envoy team was blocked in the northwest direction of Sanhu Pavilion, and asked Yuan Yin to send troops to respond.
In this way, Yuan Yin, who was still a little skeptical, finally believed that the problem of Sanhu Pavilion was serious, and he had received a secret order from Yuan Shu before, telling him to pay close attention to the movements of Liu He and his party, and to detain people in Danshui City as soon as he saw Liu He. Yuan Yin then sent Chen Lan to lead 2,000 men and horses out of the city and went straight to the direction of Sanhu Pavilion, intending to relieve the siege of the Zhao family and the Jing family first, and then intercept Liu He and bring him back to Danshui.
When Chen Lan led the troops to the Sanhu Pavilion, he found that the crisis of the Zhao family and the Jing family had been solved. According to these two families, the rebels besieging Wubao got the news from nowhere, and heard that an envoy of the Son of Heaven passed through Danshui from Chang'an, so they rushed to the upper reaches of Danshui to intercept it, claiming that they were going to rob the angel this time and force him to make decisions for them.
Chen Lan didn't know what to do, so she hurriedly took the soldiers and horses to "rescue" the angels, and naturally she was getting farther and farther away from Danshui County.
When Chen Lan passed through Fengjiayu with his soldiers and horses, the flames in the valley were everywhere, the smoke covered the sun, the rolling stones fell, and the arrows rained down, but they were ambushed.
After a chaotic fight, Chen Lan only escaped with more than 500 people, and the rest of the soldiers were killed, wounded, and surrendered, so it was not miserable.
Chen Lan went straight to Danshui County in a panic, and he didn't even dare to go to the nearby Zhaojiawu Fort to stop for a while, because he was afraid that this group of thieves who suddenly appeared would chase him to the Wuwu Fort and block him in the fort. When he was about to arrive outside Danshui City, he was horrified to find that there were more than 50,000 chaotic people gathered here, who were loudly denouncing and "greeting" all the women in the families of Yuan Yin, Lei Bo and Chen Lan.
Seeing that Chen Lan only brought a few hundred soldiers back from the northwest in a panic, the rebels immediately organized a team of thousands of people to meet the battle, so frightened that he hurriedly fled with the remnants of the soldiers in the direction of Liguo to the east of Danshui.
That night, Xiong Yue, who had already finished taking care of Fengjiayu's post-war affairs, rushed to the outside of Danshui City with more than 1,000 of his subordinates. According to Tian Chou's suggestion, Xiong Yue asked his brothers to change into the costumes of officers and soldiers, and then caused chaos under the city, it looked as if Chen Lan brought the troops back, and then had a scuffle with the rebels outside the city.
In the chaos, the team of "Chen Lan" struggled to break through the layers of barriers, and finally came to the city gate. Yuan Yin was worried that the army outside the city would be eaten by the rebels, so he hurriedly ordered someone to open the city gate and let the soldiers outside the city enter the city...... As a result, Danshui City fell.
After the north gate of Danshui was occupied by Fengxiang strongmen disguised as officers and soldiers, a large number of chaotic people outside the city poured into the city, Yuan Yin hurriedly fled from the south gate with more than a thousand soldiers who had not yet been dispersed in a panic, and then went straight to Wancheng, the Nanyang governance office.
Yuan Yin knew that he had lost the Danshui this time, and he would have to be scolded by Yuan Shu when he went back, but he would not be beheaded. is just a Danshui county, and it is not in the eyes of the rear general Yuan Shu, so it is a big deal to send his generals Ji Ling or Zhang Xun to take it back with tens of thousands of horses.
Chen Lan, who ran one step ahead, hurriedly took the remnants of his men to Wancheng after a short rest in Liguo County, thinking that he would quickly report the great changes in Danshui to Yuan Shu, and then move in to rescue the troops to lift the siege of Danshui, and at the same time clear out the large number of bandits that appeared in the Fengjiayu area.
What Chen Lan didn't know was that when he was heading east, a small team a hundred miles away from him was heading parallel to him to the east, and this group was the culprit who caused the chaos in Danshui.
When Liu He walked in the Funiu Mountain with his people day and night, he didn't know that the Danshui and Nanyang behind Lu Dao had become a mess, and it had been nine days since he left Zhaojiawu Fort.
The carriage it was riding in was burned to the ground after entering the mountains, and now everyone is leading the horses to sneak through the mountains. There are three Wang Yue masters and apprentices exploring the way in front and blocking in the rear, and some blind guys along the way are all quietly killed, and then abandon the barren mountains and mountains, becoming a delicacy for jackals and beasts in the mountains.
These sneaky people, or Yuan Shu's spies, or the ears and eyes in a cottage somewhere in Funiu Mountain, are always buzzing in Liu He's ears like flies, if there is enough time, Liu He can't say that he has to talk to them about life and ideals, but now he is in no mood or has no time to take care of it.
According to the original route, Liu He and his entourage traveled from west to east in the Funiu Mountain, which was more than 200 miles away from Yuan Shu, and as long as they crossed the Lu Mountain in the northeast corner of Nanyang, they could enter the territory of Yingchuan, which was equivalent to completely breaking away from the threat of Yuan Shu.
Liu He despised Yuan Shu in his heart, because he knew that this was an ambitious but unforesighted second-hand rich handsome, and the final outcome was always inevitable. But strategic contempt is not equal to tactical neglect, in today's era when there are soldiers in his hands and he is the boss, Liu He, who is only twenty-five horsemen, still has to clamp his tail and be a low-key man.
Yuan Yin and Chen Lan slipped away with oil on the soles of their feet, but the matter in Danshui City was far from over.
Lei Bo, who was originally injured and stayed in the camp to recuperate, was not as lucky as Yuan Yin and Chen Lan, he was surrounded in the camp by Xiong Yue's men, and after being beaten fat, he became a prisoner in a daze.
Don't look at Lei Bo's fierceness on the horse, but against this group of unreasonable mountain people who are accustomed to fighting with fierce beasts in the mountains, they can only be beaten. If he hadn't seen that the situation was not good, he would have called out his name and identity in time, but he was afraid that it would be light to break his hands and feet, and it would only be an overnight moment if he lost his life.
The chaotic people who rushed into the city began to smash and loot the rich households in the city, and when they completely looted the county seat of Danshui, I don't know who in the crowd shouted, "We are waiting to kill the officials and rebel, and now there is no way out, it is better not to do two endlessly, and take Nanxiang, Shunyang and Xixian together!" ”。
The situation deteriorated further by dividing into three routes and pouring into the counties near Danshui.
By the time Yuan Shu met Chen Lan and Yuan Yin, the civil unrest had spread to five counties in the northwest of Nanyang County, but its momentum was even more ferocious and burning the plains.
In addition to this very bad news, there is also a big or small rumor that has also been spread: not long after the envoy of the Son of Heaven entered Nanyang, he was very unfortunate to encounter the rebellion of the Danshui rebels, and as a result, in the chaos, he was held hostage by the frenzied rebels, and now he is hiding in the high and dense Funiu Mountain, and it is very difficult to find it.
Yuan Shu originally wanted to detain Liu He, and then coerce Liu Yu in Youzhou to deal with Yuan Shao, but now his plan has failed, so he is naturally very angry, so he immediately sent his general Ji Ling to command 10,000 troops to the northwest of Nanyang, intending to completely quell the growing civil unrest here.
As for Liu He's son who was robbed into the mountains, Yuan Shu couldn't take care of it for the time being, and now that Nanyang was surrounded by wolves, Yuan Shu didn't dare to take risks for a waste snack, anyway, even if Liu He died, it wouldn't have much impact on him.
As for the so-called envoy of the Son of Heaven, whoever he loves, now even the emperor can be abolished if he wants, and he can stand up if he wants, and the Han Dynasty has actually existed in name only.
When Liu He hurried through Yingchuan day and night, a vague figure of a beautiful woman suddenly appeared in his mind, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was for, Liu He felt that his heart was very painful, and he had an urge to see her no matter what.
Or, this woman should be the memory left in the depths of Liu He's memory?
The woman who made Liu He's heart suddenly moved was named Tang Ji. She was the concubine of the late young emperor Liu Wei.
At the beginning, Emperor Ling died, and the prince Liu Wei succeeded to the throne, but was later deposed by Dong Zhuo and detained in a small building. Dong Zhuo asked Zhongshu to order Li Ru to offer a cup of poisoned wine, and Liu Wei cried at the time: "This is to kill me!" So he refused to drink.
Li Ru forced Liu Biao to drink poisonous wine, and Liu Biao had no choice but to do so, so he made a drinking order and a banquet with Tang Ji and the palace maid as a farewell.
When the wine order arrived at Liu Wei, King Hongnong sang sadly: "Heaven is impermanent, and now it is about to change, how difficult my life is; I gave up the emperor's respect for all vehicles, retreated to the place, and could only be a vassal king; I have been persecuted by rebellious courtiers, and I am about to die soon, and I will be separated from you by yin and yang. ”
When Liu Wei was singing, Tang Ji got up and danced up, singing sadly to his song: "Liu Han's world fell apart and was divided by heroes from all walks of life; As the emperor's favorite concubine, my life is in danger; Being so lonely filled my heart with infinite sorrow. ”
After singing, Tang Ji wept and whimpered, and everyone present was sad. King Hongnong said to Tang Ji: "You are the concubine of the emperor's family, and you will definitely not become the wife of officials and people; If you can clean yourself, I will be happy. From now on, we will be separated by yin and yang, and we will never see each other again. ”
After saying this, Liu Wei drank poisoned wine and died, at the age of 14.
When Liu Wei died, it turned out that Liu He was watching from the sidelines, his heart was full of anger and hatred, but he didn't dare to attack.
After Liu Wei's death, Tang Ji left Luoyang with infinite sorrow and returned to his hometown Yingchuan to live in seclusion.
is such a woman with a sad background, who suddenly tugged at the heartstrings of the reborn Liu He. He felt that it seemed necessary to meet this royal sister?
However, after some ideological struggle, Liu He still let go of this somewhat charming idea and continued to flee north without hesitation......